This paper explores the role of social networks in determining labor
market participation and salaried employment of Bolivian women and
men. We define social networks as the share of neighbors that have
jobs, and find ...

In this paper we evaluate the introduction in Chile of monetary incentives
for teachers, based on a school performance tournament. We
evaluate the tournament effect, i.e. the effect of introducing the incentive
scheme ...

We study the effects of violence towards children on early childhood cognitive and noncognitive
development. We use data from a longitudinal nationally representative
survey of Chilean children to generate estimates of ...

We study wealth disparities in the formation of anthropometrics, cognitive
skills and socio-emotional skills. We use a sample of preschool and early
school children in Chile. We extend the previous literature by using ...